Lenhard J.: Towards Quantifying the Adaptability of Executable BPMN Processes
Proceedings of the 6th Central-European Workshop on Services and their
Composition (ZEUS), Potsdam, Germany, February 20 - 21, 2014 

Abstract — Process languages such as the Business Process Model and Notation 2.0 or the Web Services Business Process Execution Language promise the portability of executable artifacts among different runtime environments, given these artifacts conform to the respective specification. However, due to the natural imperfectness and differing priorities ofruntime environments, actual portability of process code is often hard to achieve. A first step towards tackling this problem is the quantification of the actual degree of portability of process code using software metrics.The ISO/IEC 25010 software quality model defines portability as a main software quality characteristic with several sub-characteristics. One ofthese is adaptability, the degree to which a piece of software can be adapted in order to be executed in a different environment. In this paper,we propose a mechanism for quantifying the degree of adaptability of BPMN 2.0 processes and demonstrate its computation.

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